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ACES awards 5 scholarships
The American Copy Editors Society has selected five winners of its 2004 scholarships. They are: Nicole Werking and Jamie Dougher of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Meredith Clark of Florida A&M University; Stephanie Kanowitz of American University; and Laura Meerkatz of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
As the top candidate among the applicants, Werking, a senior at Chapel Hill, has been named the Aubespin scholar. The scholarship is named for Merv Aubespin, the former Louisville Courier-Journal editor who is considered the “godfather” of ACES.
As the Aubespin scholar, Werking received $2,500. The other winners each received $1,000. In addition, all winners receive free registration to the Hollywood conference.
The winners were selected using these criteria:
-- Commitment to copy editing as a career
-- Work experience in copy editing
-- Abilities in copy editing, as demonstrated by the examples in the application and the recommendations.
Nicole Werking, who is from Springfield, Va., is the deputy managing editor of The Daily Tar Heel, helping manage a staff of 200 and doing the final edit each night of eight to 10 stories. She also coordinates projects for the paper, and all tabloid sections and special publications. Her Dow Jones Newspaper Fund internship last summer was on the features copy desk of the Los Angeles Times, and one of the judges noted that she got many more of her headlines published than expected, given the amount of rewriting done there. After she graduates in May, she will be an intern on the universal copy desk of the Boston Globe.
Meredith Clark, a graduate student who lives in Tallahassee, Fla., has copy edited for Florida A&M’s newspaper, the FAMUAN, and spent last summer as a Dow Jones intern at the Austin-American Statesman. In between work on her thesis, Clark helped promote the first Florida ACES workshop last fall.
Jamie Dougher, of Scotch Plains, N.J., is a member of the investigative team of The Daily Tar Heel, and was a Dow Jones sports copy editing intern at the Palm Beach Post last summer. After graduating in May, she will do another sports copy editing internship, this one at The Detroit News.
Stephanie Kanowitz, a graduate student who lives in Arlington, Va., works at Federal Computer Week, a weekly magazine for government information technology managers. She has a journalism degree from the University of Florida, and has copy edited at The Gainesville Sun and a weekly newspaper in the Miami Herald company. She is in graduate school to prepare to return to copy editing in newspapers.
Laura Meerkatz, who is from Lincoln, Neb., works on the copy desk at the Daily Nebraskan, and spent last summer editing at The Daily Herald in Arlington Heights, Ill. This summer, she has a Dow Jones internship at The Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass.
The winners were selected from a group of nearly 40 applicants, judged by five professional copy editors. The judges were Lourdes Fernandez, Newsday; Henry Fuhrmann, Los Angeles Times; Diane Hawkins, Louisville Courier-Journal; Richard Stubbe, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Robin Thrana, Charlotte Observer. Kathy Schenck of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel coordinated the scholarship program as a member of the ACES Executive Committee. The judges’ recommendations were approved by the ACES Executive Committee.
The 2004 scholarships bring the total awarded to 24 since 1999.
The deadline for the 2005 scholarships is Oct. 15, 2005. For more information on the scholarship program, please see the ACES website at www.copydesk.org/scholarships.htm
